Laura van den Berg Quotes

As a reader, I appreciate a world that feels unsettled and also visceral, inhabitable, so that's a quality I try and bring to my own work. In this way, dislocation and precision make total sense to me as a unit.

Laura van den Berg

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I don't want people to just hand me music and be like, 'Here, you sound good on this. Sing it.' I want to be able to say, 'This is me.'

Jessica Sanchez

GoodMusicPeopleMeYouWant

According to various polls conducted, the single most important issue in last week's election was not the Iraq War, not the War on Terror, not even the economy. It was the cultural war.

John Doolittle

WarWeekElectionImportantEconomy

Whether you're a second lieutenant working with a captain and a lieutenant colonel, or a four-star general working with the Office Secretary of Defense and the White House, the decision makers have got to have ground truth. Otherwise, the decisions they make could be flawed - and that can be dangerous.

John F. Kelly

TruthDecisionDecisionsYouHouse

Everybody in America has been dependent on the government at some time. We owe everybody in America the right to vote and access to capital. What I say is, let's make America work, let's make democracy and free enterprise work for everybody.

Andrew Young

WorkTimeGovernmentDemocracyFree

A company that can't fire people well is like a forest that never has a fire. It becomes overgrown, full of weeds, and it fails.

Andy Dunn

FirePeopleForestNeverCompany

If I'm breathing in 2016, I'll be happy.

Andrew Cuomo

HappyBe HappyBreathing

I think there's a backlash against minorities in this country and that part of what caused that was the fact that a black man became president. And a certain portion of the privileged population think their privilege is at stake, and they want it back.

Maysoon Zayid

ManBlackThinkBackCountryWant

I know how hard it is to make it in the music business.

Roger Taylor

BusinessMusicKnowHardMakeHow

Let's point out the elephant in the room: Actor bands are not notoriously successful enterprises. I can't think of any.

Michael Shannon

ThinkElephantActorOutPointRoom

I was lucky enough to have parents who started me on music very early, but most kids don't get that kind of exposure.

Joshua Bell

MusicParentsMeEnoughEarlyKind

Laughter is God's blessing.

Joseph Prince

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Show people tend to treat their finances like their dentistry. They assume the man handling it knows what he is doing.

Dick Cavett

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